The Purple Island

Fletcher, Phineas; Anderson, Daniel Gustav

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“…Particularly, within literary work, the body and its connection to the mind have also been exploited as a medium to understand or express the social concerns of specific periods and cultures. Philosophers and artists, among others, have engaged in the discovery of the nature of the body while simultaneously incorporating knowledge and conceptions about the body derived from science, society, and religion (Fletcher, 1816 ; Shakespeare, 1980 ; Homer., 1987 , 2003 ; Burton, 2001 ; Chaucer, 2003 ; Johnson, 2004 ; Wordsworth and Coleridge, 2013 ; Shelley, 2018 and in Dickens' work: Kryger, 2012 ). Using Illustration works depicting feminism, racism, and disability have also used the body as a means to represent these fights.…”

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Bodies in the Novel Infinite Jest

Chapman

Cosentino

2021

Front. Psychol.

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This manuscript provides a literary analysis of the use of bodies in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. The novel describes a world where oversaturation of external stimulation leads to the perception of mind and body of self of an individual as prosthetic parts, malleable and deformed, wherein the mind fails to feel bodily sensations and characters experience a complete disconnectedness from the self and others. Indeed, the disembodiment of characters and sensations of disconnection leads them to a compulsive quest for connectedness through the use of masks, made-up feelings, mind–body hybrid pain, corporeal malleability, and prostheses. These portrayals of the disordered and disconnectedness between body and mind or self will be described and compared to clinical conditions characterized by a disconnection between mind and body and impaired body self-awareness. Through this exercise, we argue that the use of scientifically inspired pathologized bodies is a means of conveying the stance of Wallace on or criticism of the degradation of society through excessive entertainment.

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Bodies in the Novel Infinite Jest

Chapman

Cosentino

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare

Bromley

2011

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James Bromley argues that Renaissance texts circulate knowledge about a variety of non-standard sexual practices and intimate life narratives, including non-monogamy, anal eroticism, masochism and cross-racial female homoeroticism. Rethinking current assumptions about intimacy in Renaissance drama, poetry and prose, the book blends historicized and queer approaches to embodiment, narrative and temporality. An important contribution to Renaissance literary studies, queer theory and the history of sexuality, the book demonstrates the relevance of Renaissance literature to today. Through close readings of William Shakespeare's 'problem comedies', Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander, plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, Thomas Middleton's The Nice Valour and Lady Mary Wroth's sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and her prose romance The Urania, Bromley re-evaluates notions of the centrality of deep, abiding affection in Renaissance culture and challenges our own investment in a narrowly defined intimate sphere.

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The Purple Island

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Bodies in the Novel Infinite Jest

Bodies in the Novel Infinite Jest

Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare

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